Background
He is the son of sports journalist and publicity director of the San Francisco 49ers, Dan Francis McGuire (1917-1983) and high school teacher Phyllis Evelyn Goemmer (1916-2009), the fourth of nine children.
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He is the son of sports journalist and publicity director of the San Francisco 49ers, Dan Francis McGuire (1917-1983) and high school teacher Phyllis Evelyn Goemmer (1916-2009), the fourth of nine children.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, England, 1971.
McGuire obtained in 1968 a Bachelor of Arts in history and Latin from the University of California at Berkeley, with the highest grade point average in his graduating class. He became a Fulbright Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University, England, where he was supervised by Sir Richard Southern and in 1971 was granted a Doctorate.Phil. in history. In 1970, he was a tutor in “The Great Books of Western Civilisation” at Saint John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.
McGuire emigrated 1971 to Denmark and worked for an electronics firm, and from 1971-1972 taught high school.
He moved on to the Institute for History, Copenhagen University, where he in 1972-1974 had the function of post-doctoral fellowship Eventually McGuire became a Danish citizen in 1976.
From 1975 to 1996, he was a Lecturer at the Institute for Greek and Latin, Copenhagen University. In 1996 McGuire moved to Roskilde University, as professor in medieval history.
He is since 2012 professor emeritus in history.
McGuire was in 2011 elected Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
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Member National Association Danish Refugee Friends (spokesperson).
Married Ann Kirstin Pedersen, January 3, 1970. 1 child, Christian Sung Dan.